Ok have been doing some further research and here is what I think i know so far :
There is a slot for a mSATA SDD - about the size of the wireless card. That is in addition to the 2 SATA connectors used by the current HDD and the DVD. The standard SATA SDD can completely replace the HDD and the HDD can move to the DVD bay. mSATA is still there and empty. Original HDD must be cloned to the new SDD.
Fingers crossed.
>Charles, have you checked the spec's on your Lenovo? I have a y470 and it supports a special version of SSD's which is the mSATA which I suspect yours does. Your 570 and my 470 are almosst identical, and share the same manual. Other than that I don't know much about it other than its the best notebook by far I have ever had.
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>CORRECTION: you have a 560 - sorry for the error but still could be the same issue.
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http://www.studentbuyingguide.com/2011/09/lenovo-ideapad-y470-review/>
>What I also found is (unless they changed something) just replacing the regular HD with a normal SDD in this model still uses the older SATA spec, whereass the mSATA is unique to this model and special.
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>>Samsung 250mb SSDs are about $170 now so mine arrives tomorrow.
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>>My laptop is an i7 and runs Win 7 64bit so seems like it will be worth the effort to upgrade the primary drive.
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>>Found an HD caddy to swap into the CD Rom bay, so will move the current primary - 500 mb to that as a second drive..
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>> Running multiple instances of VS2012, with SSMS etc is just getting tedious on my old desktop with 32bit. (and that's in 2012 and c# - vs2010 with a big VB app is painful. )
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>>Laptop has 6gb now but I will soon bump to 8 (which is the official max. y580s are said to handle 16gb nicely but not sure about the y560 yet, though I suspect the processor and 64bit os are more the issue )
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>>Anybody have experience of upgrading a laptop to SSD?
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>>I hear is it a very nice difference. They say it comes with software to mirror current HD to new one but if not I have Paragon suite.
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>>I'll report back tomorrow on results, or at least vent my frustration ( I hate hardware and all its evil works )
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